Velenar, first, thank you for the donation...that was very generous of you. I didn't mean to imply I was looking for donations, I was just stating that I have no financial tie to the project (nothing to gain or lose)....but it was appreciated.
I like how you summarized your thoughts, and I do completely understand the sentiment.
You're welcome, and thanks.
I'm just not sure if the community is looking for a project leader that they need to be technical in nature.
In a way, your wording of that points towards a solution.
I understand EK and you don't want to take on a semi-official project leader mantle in the future. While I would be curious to hear from Unvoid in general, indeed quite possibly none of Elastic's coders wants to be labeled so.
Fortunately, that doesn't seem necessary for the issue of the mainnet launch. Once EK's timeline is completed several weeks from now, there seem to be just two needs for the launch itself, not necessarily needing to be both provided by the same person:
a) technical knowledge ... although the person pressing the button, so to speak, might not be the expert, as long as getting instructions from an expert
b) one or more reputable members involved, so many casuals will flock to join, and so we start the mainnet nicely enmasse
Elastic could probably go forward after launch with the closest to a lead organizer being Selsonblue, for example.